Medicine: Border Crackdown

Because arthritis and rheumatism are painful and crippling and may drag
on for a lifetime, despairing victims are easy prey for quacks. They
spend an estimated $250 million a year for treatments that are
worthlessor, worse, dangerous. Last week the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration banned the importation of one such dangerous "remedy"
known as Liefcort, which a maverick Canadian doctor has been making in
his basement.

U.S.-born Robert E. Liefmann, 42, graduated from Montreal's McGill
University Faculty of Medicine, but has been involved in an eight-year
hassle with licensing authorities and has never been licensed to
practice. This has not kept...